Classic Album Review: The Anger Brothers | The Anger Brothers
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
It’s no secret that...
Classic Album Reviews: Black Sabbath | Symptom of the Universe: 1970 – 1978 /...
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
A few years back,...
Classic Album Reviews: The Soft Boys | Nextdoorland / Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Sings
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“You can set your...
The Moth Project Landing In Toronto & Ottawa
It’s been 14 years since Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based musician Peter Kiesewalter presented his own music in his home province with his Grammy-nominated rock-opera outfit East Village Opera Company. That drought...
Christopher Ward Rekindles His Spark Of Desire
Christopher Ward takes you back to 1978 with his old-new album Spark Of Desire — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
Before writing the Billboard chart-topper Black Velvet for Alannah Myles, becoming one...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • The Short List: 7 Titles You...
Bruce has a heart full of soul, GN’R reuse their Illusion, Morris Day calls time, Larkin Poe live in harmony, Wild Billy girds his loins, White Buffalo rides a...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • The Long List: 375 Releases On...
Today’s musical birthdays are a bittersweet affair: Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey would have been 74, Texas tornado Doug Sahm would have blown out 80 candles, Guy Clark would have...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • New Books
A punk hero, a glam god, a rock icon, a country boy, two sexy one-hit wonders, a jazz extraterrestrial and a host of classic rock and pop stars. You...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • On TV
SoFaygo, Smino, Breland and Mergui. If you don't already know them, now's your chance — they're all hitting the airwaves next week, along with more familiar names like Shania,...
Albums Of The Week: John Mellencamp | Scarecrow Deluxe Edition
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The deluxe edition reissue of John Mellencamp’s beloved album Scarecrow is out now, featuring a massive collection of bonus tracks, rarities and more never previously...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
A few months ago I was holding a pop-up record sale at a local microbrewery. One of the albums I was selling kept causing confusion.
The centre of said confusion...
Thunder Pie | Endless Evening Appomattox Blues
“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
— Frederick Douglass
George Floyd, face on the street, the cop’s...
Weekend Mixtape | 267 Songs That Are More Than You Can Handle (Side 11)
Hey, you. Yeah, you. You say you like music. But do you like music enough to wade through 1,000 Bandcamp Friday emails, scroll though a few hundred more notifications,...
Albums Of The Week: Jason Collett | Head Full Of Wonder
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For Head Full Of Wonder, Jason Collett takes inspiration from a famed Bertolt Brecht epigram on the first single: ‘In the dark times / will...
Albums Of The Week: Marvin Tate’s D Settlement | Marvin Tate’s D Settlement
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “D-Settlement were Chicago’s best-kept secret: A trailblazing, diverse band mixing R&B, soul, punk, gospel and funk with biting wit and political commentary.
Led by Marvin Tate...
